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HTML and CSS: An Absolute Beginner's Guide. Build a complete, standards-compliant web site from scratch -- it assumes *no prior knowledge* at all.
CSS is Worthless. CSS does not make a site accessible, or make your site rank higher in search engines, or make you an elite web programmer.
Unobtrusive Sidenotes. A simple mix of Javascript and CSS that makes it ridiculously easy to incorporate sidenotes into your web pages.
Safari Tidy plugin. The Safari Tidy plugin is a small plugin that lets you validate the webpages you browse for (x)html compliance.
Dotted image border. A simple technique for achieving various border effects using a little pattern background image.
sIFR 2.0.2 Final Release. Maintenance release for the problems caused by the 'Eolas patch'.
Smart 'back to top' link. Clever way to hiding 'back to top' links on short pages using JS.
Object-Oriented Javascript. Tim Huegdon's introduction to object-oriented programming with JavaScript.
Schillmania Rounded Corners: Perhaps the best, most pragmatic implementation of rounded corners with images and css using standard module formats.
Hoverbox Menu. Nice implimentation of the Hoverbox CSS technique, for use in oversized menu roll-over effects.
SlideShowPro Director. Todd Dominey's awesome server-side admin interface for SlideShowPro. Sure beats FTP and hand-updating XML.
Understanding “Any order columnsâ€. How to have three columns in one order in the source document— but laid out in any order we want using CSS.
Clearance. Clear floats in your layout using javascript. The script positions elements absolutely, and changes the tallest element to relative.
jQuery wins the slickest query for event selectors: jQuery comes up with the shortest amount of code to complete the challege of event binding to css selectors.
ThickBox 1.0. Corrects some major bugs (especially in IE). Adds a few more features and functionality.
XHTML+CSS+JS Virtual Keyboard. Can shrink to any size and may be used by people accessing websites from handheld devices.
Javascript Paginator. Break long lists of items into chunks via a css selector through javascript, no need for server side scripting.
Well Educated CSS. Creating more efficient sites by taking advantage of the id and class attributes in the body tag.
Goodbye CSS Beauty. Has the time come for CSS Beauty to close its doors? or does the site still function as a useful resource?
CSS Grid Calculator. An application built in Flash. You can use it to quickly visualize page layout and draw grids in a variety of ways.
Cross Browser YUI Tetris Game. A cross-browser, standards-compliant Tetris game built on top of the YUI Libraries.
Microsoft Releases Expression Preview. It is tailored to web designers who want to create standards-compliant, CSS-based sites.
Shuttle Launched. Khaled talks about the completion of the Shuttle Project's redesign of the WordPress admin screens.
Skip Link Pros and Cons. A very insightful article on the pros and cons of skip links and how best implement them.
Foundational Fonts CSS File According To Yahoo!. The foundational Fonts CSS file offers cross-browser typographical normalization and control.
Your favorite Yahoo! UI JavaScript libraries just got even better. Includes Ajax, common DOM tasks, event handling, animation, and drag n' drop.
Microsoft, ActiveX and noscript. Clever flash embedding method addressing the latest Microsoft debacle.
Will the Standards Battle Ever be Won? Now that Microsoft is starting to talk standards, is there light at the end of the tunnel, or will the battle go on?
Stripe your tables the OO way. A new and improved Zebra Table technique for alternating colors between rows.
Web Developer Toolbar & Menu for Opera. Brings together functions related to web development, validation services and links to standards.
Design View - Design Test. Andy Rutledge invites readers to take the knoweldge challenge. Will you pass muster? Go find out.
Django for non-programmers. Jeff Croft covers some of the planning and implimentation of Django that went into his new Python-based website.
The importance of window-width. Simon Collison, from Colly Logic, discuses the dilemma of screen width and site layout.
Automatic Scaling of Base Font (ASBF ). A way to get 1em to equal the same # of pixels on all browsers for identical scaling on all browsers.
AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work?. Surprising results of tests conducted using AJAX scripts in a variety of screen reader software.
Front-End Architecture: Markup is the Technical Foundation. Garrett Dimon continues to emphasize the importance of clean XHTML: "Treat your markup as art."
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JavaScript instead of Target="_blank". Using semantic XHTML and unobtrusive JavaScript to create a nice pop-up window that works in Strict doctypes.
Thinking Outside of the Flash Embed Box. Thoughts on using Flash and AJAX together for the best of both worlds.
easyALBUM. A photo gallery packed with usability/accessibility features created using the DOM.
getElementsByClassName Deluxe Edition. Supports multiple classnames in any order, fast, works in WinIE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and IE Mac.
CSS Reboot spring 2006. The time has come yet again... Go check out some good redesigns.
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